Linked by Jim Kirkley on Thu 12th Jun 2003 02:18 UTC
Back on June 9 2003, OSNews posted an article by Joshua Boyles entitled "The Edge Computing System". In that article Joshua lays out his vision, "of a new and very unique computing system". In this new article, an attempt will be made to further build on Jonathan's ideas through what can be termed, "Open Peripheral Hardware Connectivity".
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Jim,
had the same idea one year ago, started to write but never finished it.
It's nice to see that other people have the same ideas.
When I did my research I found out, that such a system, specially transporting Real-Time-Audio and Real-Time-Video could only work with Firewire never ever, with acceptable results, over USB.
Firewire uses similar technical principals as SCSI, two clients can send data back and forth to each other without sending the data to the CPU.
Under USB the data always runs through the CPU even when 2 clients talk to each other. Intel invented USB specially to use the CPU, a powerful CPU from Intel!
Also I placed the Graphic card into the TFT screen (there should be a AGP slot or so insde the screen...)
BTW:
What I don't get is why we have all these different serial connections -> Firewire = one size fits all!
No serial ATA needed. No USB or whatever.
Every hardware could be connected over Firewire.
AFAIK Apple already has Firewire/800 and Firewire/1600 is planned.
If SONY can send Real-Time-Audio and Real-Time_Video over Firewire/400 than the next computer generation could be a Firewire/1600 only computer.
But the BAD thing would be: after 10 years your old hardware would work excellent with the newest CPU Extravaganza with 50GHZ and this would be bad for the industry.